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The FCC voted today to move forward with rules that would let internet service providers charge companies more for faster access to consumers. "Reduce speed ahead"
modified 15-May-14 19:30pm.
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...and that's the death knell for net neutrality, was good while it lasted.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft Research today launched Code Hunt, a browser-based game for anyone interested in learning how to code by playing. The premise is straightforward: the player must write code to advance in the game. "There is but one rule, hunt or be hunted"
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In Level 1.03;
I'm pretty sure that for value of x=33;
return x^2;
should equal the expected answer 1089 and not the 35 it thinks it returns 
It wants the answer as;
return x*x;
I've been a fool....ignore
modified 16-May-14 4:08am.
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It will be better after the next Service Pack 
TTFN - Kent
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Actually the result is correct; in C# ^ is the XOR operator, what you should've used it Math.Pow. Also just to explan 33 is 100001 in binary, which XOR'ed with 000010 results in 100011 = 35.
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Just goes to show that I'm so at home using '^' for power has let me down here........my bad.
I've taken myself outside and given me a good talking to. 
Have a +5 for highlighting my stupidity.
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: java :![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Entertainment != learning.
It's a sick and undereducated mind that tries and make everything "fun". There's brass where there is muck.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm sorry to disagree, but there have been centuries now of educational toys. They fulfil a good purpose.
I'd hate to be one of your children - oi you, stop enjoying learning!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: I'm sorry to disagree, but there have been centuries now of educational toys. They fulfil a good purpose.
Yes, for kids.
Then again, once you even start to grow up you move to a more efficient way of learning - you're schooled. Playing games is based on the simplest form of learning - the monkey see is monkey do principle. Once you can read, it is more efficient to pick up a book.
Rob Grainger wrote: I'd hate to be one of your children
You would.
Rob Grainger wrote: oi you, stop enjoying learning!
You're jumping to a conclusion here; I'm not opposed to fun during learning. I'm opposed to marketing selling a lot of crap and acting like everything in the world should be fun. We don't live in a TV-commercial, some realism might be very beneficial.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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There have been a lot of toys and games popping up that secretly teach kids programming basics and how to code, but why is it so important to teach programming skills to our kids? Bah, in my day we just had a deck of punch cards and an awl
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Admit it, you're bored.
Jeremy Falcon
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 OK, I admit it.
There's just *nothing* going on. It's like the press is waiting for Apple to release a new product or something. I miss the days when we had a new web framework every three days.
Ima go in the corner and sulk now.
TTFN - Kent
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Have a look at developer blogs at big companies, they are sometimes pretty interesting and worth a read especially Microsoft ones.
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Trust me: I monitor a lot of them.
Windows blog - nothing since April 2
Building Apps for Windows - May 1
Exploring IE - April 25
Microsoft Developer blogs - nothing useful since 1st day of TechEd (Monday! Yeesh)
.NET Blog - light this week
Hanselman - I haven't posted anything from him for almost two whole days!
It's enough to almost make me want to see if there are Oracle or IBM blogs.
Almost.
But then I'd have to install a shower in the cubicle.
TTFN - Kent
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Our Agile Architect commits heresy by suggesting that developers are writing too many tests. Perhaps the question should not be, "Do I have a test?" It should be, "Do I have the right test?" Will this be on the exam?
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I did a pair programming "interview" last weekend where the code (Ruby on Rails) had four kinds of tests:
unit tests for functions
model tests for, you guessed it, Models
Jasmine tests for the client-side Javascript
Capyabara tests for the integration testing
It seemed like in inordinate amount of testing.
The really laughable part though was when we stumbled across some code like this:
LogTransaction(old_value, new_value)
Followed by the definition:
def LogTransaction(new_value, old_value)
The irony being, that the definition was mislabeled. "new_value" was actually the old value.
No amount of testing could find that, except to say of course that the code did the right thing, but semantically, it was incorrect. 
Marc
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That website was not tested. Firefox shows an XML error: no element found...
Too many tests? The right test? Ehm.
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Which companies stand with their users, embracing transparency around government data requests? Which companies have resisted improper government demands by fighting for user privacy in the courts and on Capitol Hill? "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."
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Facebook came to the conclusion that MVC does not scale up for their needs and has decided to use a different pattern instead: Flux. Because MVC is sooooo 1980s
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Facebook's consistency requirements and data are pretty atypical cases I'd imagine. Also having an almost unlimited pot of fairy dubloons means they couldn't care less about developer productivity.
All that said - quite an interesting article. The pity is that it will be used by those who know little as ammunition to reduce all formal process to "copy blocks from google and give it a try".
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The view should never have direct access to the model. That's one of the things MVVM addresses. I like the simplified design of Flux they're talking about, but I'd still add a client-side VM layer on top of it for the extra layer of abstraction. Maybe something like FluxVM or FVM. Sounds nice.
Jeremy Falcon
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